Standard Patent Prosecution Procedure (Score 4, Insightful)

Nothing Mentioned here is out of the ordinary. All applications are rejected at least once...if it is not rejected your council has done something terribly wrong and drawn narrow-scope claims that will not yield any protection or competitive advantage. Cancellation and continuation are standard strategy as well. It would be more interesting to find that they were given a divisional; implying validity.

I thought the one-click patent was brought to its knees by the /. community riding on the back of an old ski-lift ticket system as prior art.

-A